122 THE GLANDS REGULATING PERSONALITY 



has been discribed the hyperpituitary face, and the hyperthyroid 

 face, the subthyroid face and the subpituitary face, the adrenal 

 face, the eunuchoid face and the ovarian face and also the 

 thymic. 



To bring to mind an immediate complete image of the hyper- 

 thyroid face, one should think of Shelley. The oval shape of it, 

 with the delicate modeling of all the features, the wide, high 

 brow, the large, vivacious, prominent eyes with the glint of a 

 divine fire in them and the sensitive lips all belong to the classi- 

 cal picture. Generally flushed over the cheek-bones, there is 

 undoubtedly a certain effeminate effect associated with it. At 

 least, it is the least animal and brutish of the faces of man. 



On the other hand, the subthyroid face is that of the cretin 

 and cretinoid idiot, in a mild degree. So characteristic that we 

 recognize the portrait in the descriptions of Pliny in early Roman 

 times and of Marco Polo in his Asiatic travels. Coarseness, dull- 

 ness, pudginess are its keynotes. Irregular features, tendency to 

 wide separation of the eyes and pug nose, sallow, puffy com- 

 plexion, waxy thickened nose and eyelids, deep-set, listless, lack- 

 lustre eyebrows, and thick prominent lips comprise the catalogue 

 of the physiognomy. On the whole, the sort of face one passes 

 in the street as stupid and common. But there are a number 

 of fascinating and marvelous varieties of the stupid and common. 



The adrenal face is most often dark or freckled. It tends to 

 be irregularly broadish. It is hairy, one is struck forcibly. 

 There is a low hair line, which makes the brow appear rather 

 low, and there is a good deal of hair over the cheek bones. The 

 adrenal type is round headed. 



The face of the hyperpituitary is striking and pretty sharply 

 defined. It is long and narrow, with a tendency to prominence 

 of the bony parts. Square, protruding jaw, high, thin, straight 

 nose, emphasized eyebrows, and marked cheek-bones, comprise 

 the leading points in its composition. On the other hand, the 

 subpituitary is more rounded and trends toward the full moon 

 effect, the chin recedes, the cheek-bones are buried under fat, the 

 nose spreads more and is flatter. In its general expression, there 

 is a complacence and tranquillity which is often mistaken for 

 sleepiness, and often actually is dullness. 



The eunuchoid face is usually fat with puffy eyelids. The 

 skin is smooth and cool, marble-like often, poor in pigment and 

 color. Sometimes it is sallow, wrinkled and senile in a man in his 

 early twenties. At others, it is distinctly feminine in its hair- 



